Health

Why Bill Gates Spent $200 Million to Reinvent the Toilet

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation spent $200 million over the past seven years funding sanitation research. Gates suggests that a new approach for sterilizing human waste could end nearly 500,000 infant deaths and $233 billion annually in costs linked to diseases caused by poor water and sanitation.

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